Not Suicide, Mumbai Doctor Was Murdered, Alleges Lawyer After Autopsy Shows Injury on Her Neck
The post-mortem report of doctor Payal Tadavi, who was found dead in her hostel room recently, has revealed evidence of a ligature mark around her neck. Under “provisional cause of death”, the post-mortem report stated “evidence of ligature mark over neck,” the ANI reported.
Three senior doctors, accused of tormenting 26-year-old Payal with casteist slurs and abetting her suicide, were arrested on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a Mumbai court sent all three doctors – Bhakti Mehre, Ankita Khandelwal and Hema Ahuja – to two-day police custody as her family sought directions for the crime to be treated as a murder.
Nitin Salute, representing Payal’s family, argued in court that circumstances of the medical post-graduate student’s death suggested it was a murder case. “The accused had taken Payal’s body to some other place and it was later brought back to hospital, so there is a suspicion of tampering. From the circumstances of her death and bruise mark on her body, it can be said that it must be a case of murder. Therefore, the police must look at this as a murder case,” Salute said.…
SEE ALSO:
- Was Dr. Payal Tadvi victim of a hate crime? (May 28, 2019, Sabrang India)
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/opinion-was-dr-payal-tadvi-victim-hate-crime - The bullying that led this doctor to take her own life (May 29, 2019, BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48430392 - Protest outside Mumbai’s Nair Hospital demanding justice for Dr Payal Tadvi (May 28, 2019, Sabrang India)
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/protest-outside-mumbais-nair-hospital-demanding-justice-dr-payal-tadvi - With no institutional mechanisms, discrimination and harassment are everyday ordeals for tribal students (May 29, 2019, Twocircles.net)
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